Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0

A pianist and conductor who has led the Berlin State Opera, the Chicago Symphony, and La Scala over a career spanning seven decades, and the only person publicly known to hold both Israeli and Palestinian citizenship. In 1999, with the Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, he founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, seating young Israeli and Arab musicians together to play despite the conflict surrounding them. He has won seven Grammy Awards and remains an outspoken critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, using his standing as a musician to argue for dialogue over division.